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Sure, he knows there will soon be more than a few people who will start to recognize him around town. (Especially after the world has seen him on the big screen wearing nothing but a loin cloth.) But Ashong definitively resists the label of "movie star," and not just because he's modest...
...stylistic assurance within each painting, but not among the works as a whole. It's almost as if Picasso tries on a style and buys it completely until he finishes a painting only to abandon or modify that style before moving on to the next canvas. The show's label text aptly points to possible influences which include artists such as Monet, Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Cezanne and even Velasquez...
...Kelley Deal 6000 formed three years ago and recorded their first album in 1995 on Nice Records, a label founded by Kelley Deal. Deal is quick to emphasize that the band is not her solo act, and that all the members are equally important. She does the majority of the song writing, but describes the effort as "mostly collaborative"--she readily accepts input from Mund on guitar parts and welcomes the suggestions of other band members. The Kelley Deal 6000 is the first outfit for which Deal has written songs, and she considers herself a newcomer...
With the release of its third album, Autoditacker, Mouse on Mars is definitely a creature stirring the indie dance music scene. Released on the Chicago-based Thrilljockey label, Autoditacker wraps you up in swirls of repeated samples and drum loops. This kind of music-making may seem a bit hackneyed given the array of cookie-cutter techno groups out there, and after a first listen it seems easy enough to dismiss Mouse on Mars as just as another purveyor of boring rave music. But subsequent encounters with Autoditacker reveal a genuine musicality that contradicts this initial impression...
...that changed. Studies showed that if fenfluramine was taken with a kindred drug, phentermine, the euphonious fen/phen duo would help dieters shed pounds not only faster but with few side effects. Although the drugs were never approved for combined use, doctors exercised their right to prescribe them "off label"--and that usually meant together. The combo quickly became one of the drug industry's hottest sellers...